Saturday, 7 June 2014

FreemeDigital - Professional Music Distribution

FreemeDigital, The ground breaking African digital distribution service for independent musicians, labels and content creators today releases a short clip highlighting some of the services it offers as well as some of the artists they work with. Launched in late 2013 Freeme Digital (http://www.freemedigital.com/), already has 100’s of Independent artists, labels and content creators on it’s books.

Freeme Digital is a low, flat fee service that distributes music on a 3rd party basis directly to iTunes, VEVO, Spotify, Beats Music, Google Play, Deezer and many other major download and streaming sites both local and international while taking no ownership rights from the sale of the music. Artists are building careers, selling music and generating revenue through Freeme Digital. Since its launch in 2013, Freeme Digital has distributed thousands of tracks to iTunes and other digital stores by MTV MAMA Nominees and unsigned artists alike. Freeme Digital clients include - Olamide, Iyanya, Akpororo, Chigul, Phyno, Seyi Shay, P-Square, Oritse Femi, Burna Boy, Davido, Patoranking and Runtown to name a few. More music is released for monetization in one day via Freeme Digital than any local record label, in addition Freeme Digital recently expanded its offering to distribute music videos, pre-order tracks and instant gratification albums to iTunes and more.

According to General Manager Muna Orioha Freeme Digital recently opened its second office on Allen Avenue in Ikeja in order to meet up with demand from labels and artists alike. He went on to state that the Lekki office would serve as a head of operations for the distributor’s groundbreaking pay on demand label services offering. Rolled out in March 2014, the label services team give Independent artists extra help with their releases by offering digital marketing services, priority access to pluggers, reviewers, mixing and mastering professionals, web specialists, legal advisers, and Freeme Digital’s own In House promotional team on an ad hoc pay as you go basis.

Muna Orioha states, “Freeme Digital is totally committed to providing the best online distribution service for the African market. Maintaining a vibrant innovative business is a key part of our strategy and crucial to the on going work with both major artists and labels and priority partners like iTunes, VEVO and Spotify.”